It Came From the 1950s! pp 72-89 | Cite as
‘Don’t Dare See It Alone!’ The Fifties Hammer Invasion
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In 2009 the British Film Institute re-released an uncut version of Hammer’s original ‘X’ (16) rated 1958 production of Dracula as a certificate ‘12A’. The main cut that had been reinstated was of a staking which showed the stake entering a body, with the welling of blood: a scene that the UK Censor at the time deemed too graphic for an adult audience to see. Yet, the same scene survived in the American print for parental guided matinees.
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Notes
- 5.Reviews of The Curse of Frankenstein by Campbell Dixon, Daily Telegraph, May 1957.Google Scholar
- C.A. Lejeune, Observer, 3 May 1957.Google Scholar
- 10.C.A. Lejeune, Observer, 31 May 1958.Google Scholar
- Nina Hibbin, Daily Worker, 31 May 1958.Google Scholar
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- 13.John Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw (London: Michael Joseph, 1973), pp. 60, 63.Google Scholar
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